Archive for September, 2007

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Add-In: WHS – Download Manager Updated

Add-In Windows Home Server Download Manager has been updated to version 1.8 beta. This was to fix a bug where the download’s could not be started or deleted Thanks to the German HomeServer forum for the info – Download.

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HomeServerControls Documentation for Developers

If intellisense, public classes and methods mean absolutely anything to you, then Brendan Grant is your man. Due to the lack of intellisense documentation, he has compiled an XML file and an accompanying help file explaining what some of the public classes and methods exposed by HomeServerControls do. More information and the downloads are on […]

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Diskeeper 2007 for WHS 45 day fully-working trial available

Terry from We Got Served has arranged with Diskeeper for us all to have a 45 day fully-working trial version of Diskeeper 2007 for WHS. For those of you that don’t know, this product will enable you to defrag your Home Server and keep the disk drives in an optimum state. Download.

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New Blog New Book – Windows Home Server User's Guide

Andrew Edney author of the upcoming Windows Home Server User’s Guide has started a blog to coincide with the books release, which should be available by the end of October (2007). It is great to see more sites appearing dedicated to Windows Home Server, welcome aboard Andrew.

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Windows Home Server Officially Launches October 1st, 2007

Windows Home Server will be officially launched on October 1st, 2007. You can take part in the event by visiting the Microsoft Readiness Center where a virtual web seminar will take place at 9.00AM PDT. Presenter Walt Perry will be hosting this 1 hour live event for free.   I do like an online event. […]

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When can I get a copy of WHS – Suppliers keep giving us different dates of release?

Todd Headrick part of the Windows Home Server Team has the answer: With a version 1 product in a new product category, it takes awhile for System Builders to get it on their radar and order the product. Once an order is placed through a distributor, then the distributor has to get the part number […]

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Avast! AntiVirus for WHS – Beta Starts 1st October 2007

Terry from We Got Served has great news that the public beta of Avast! AntiVirus for Windows Home Server will be available from 1st October (2007). The final build will be released at the end of October. And as Terry says that really is a short beta period.

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Will the September 2007 Updates be Included in OEM copies?

Contributor haole over on the WHS forums asked if the new updates scheduled for this month (September, 2007) would be included in the OEM copies or will they have to be downloaded separately? WHS Product planner Todd Headrick replied stating that: New media will be slip-streamed into future System Builder packages as part of the […]

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Windows Home Server Available October 1st 2007?

We posted back in August (2007) that Norway had pricing information for Windows Home Server, but availability has been quite scarce. Since then Stig Nerland Microsoft’s Norwegian Audience Marketing Manager has posted a blog entry stating that Windows Home Server will be released on October 1, 2007.We presume that’s for Norway or the Scandinavian countries?

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Add-In: Download Manager Updated to 1.6 Beta

Thanks to our German friends at Homeserver Blog we can tell you that the download manager add-in has been updated to version 1.6 Beta. As I reported yesterday the console crashed when clicking on the “Download Manager” tab and this version fixes that console crash at first start issue and also some Save/Delete bugs also. […]